Improvement in self-locking stove legs or feet



SELF-LOCKING STOVE LEG 0R F ITED S'I'ATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM W. TIGE, or CALIFORNIA, 01110.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-LOCKING STOVE LEGS OR FEET.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,223, dated August15, 1876 application filed June 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. Tree, 0 California, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Self-Locking Stove Foot or Leg, ofwhich the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a device for looking cast legs or feet tostoves and other like articles.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an under-side view of myimproved stove leg or foot in position upon the stove-plate. Fig.

2 shows a portion of stove-plate without the leg. Fig. 3 shows the upperpart of the leg.

The leg proper A has projecting from the rear of its upper extremity ahorizontal flange, 1-3, having notch G and orifice D, to engage upon thestuds or projections E and F from the under side of any stove-plate G.The flange B is rounded or chamfered, I), to enable it to be readilyengaged under teats e c, that project from the stud E. The stud F has ahole, f, which, receiving a key-piece, H, (a common nail, for example,)after the application of the leg, serves to lock the whole securelytogether. Even without the key-piece H this leg will be held moresecurely than those commonly used, because, after once being in place,it cannot possibly become dislodged therefrom by any movement of thestove other than lifting of it bodily from off the floor; and when fullylocked by the insertion of the key-piece, the stove may be lifted,

carried, or shifted about at will, or even sufl'er accidentaldisplacement, with no possibility of (lislodging a foot. The outermargin I of the leg bears throughout its extent against the under sideof the plate margin. The distance asunder of the bearing-points of theleg with the plate permits the parts to have considerable play, andenables any leg to be picked at random from the pile and at once appliedto anycorner without special filing or fitting. The gating being locatedon the edges X of the flanges B, any sprue or scar left. thereby causesno inconvenience, because it does not come in contact with thebearing-surfaces.

While describing the preferred form of my improvement, I reserve theright to vary the same in nonessential particulars; for example, twostuds occupying notches on the side of flange B, or otherwise, might besubstituted for the single stud F f.

The following is what Iclaim as new and ofmy invention:

In combination with stove-plate G, having stud E, armed with teats ccand stud F, pierced at f for key-piece H, the leg or foot A, whoseflange B has notch O and orifice D, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

ln testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

. WILLIAM W. TIOE. Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, .HORAOE E. JOHNSON.

